Latest update January 1st, 2025 1:00 AM
Latest News
UG student died from drowning -post mortem
Dead: Harris A. Persaud
Police have ruled out foul play in the death of University of Guyana student, Harris Anthony Persaud, whose body was fished out of the Demerara River on Friday.
Police said that a post mortem revealed that the 19-year-old Civil Engineer student died from drowning.
However, police are still to seek legal advice to ascertain if any charges could be leveled against the two other students with whom Persaud went swimming.
The two youths had failed to report his death and also disposed of his clothing and other items.
Persaud, of Cane Grove, East Coast Demerara, vanished on Wednesday after leaving classes at the University and visiting two of his colleagues, who were renting an apartment at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara.
The student’s father, Nandkumar Persaud, said that after his son failed to arrive home, he contacted the two students, who confirmed that they had seen Persaud.
But the friends claimed that Persaud subsequently left for Mahaica, where he is on a three-year-attachment at H. Nauth and Sons Civil Engineering Contractors.
But the woman who rented the two friends the Turkeyen apartment told Persaud’s relatives that the three friends had left together on Wednesday in a car.
Acting on this information, detectives on Thursday took the two students into custody.
Under intense questioning, the youths reportedly told investigators that Persaud had accompanied them to the Kingston seawalls, near the Marriott Hotel.
They claimed that they were all swimming in the Atlantic when a wave swept Persaud away. One of the students recalled clinging to a rock.
It is alleged that the friends then panicked and disposed of Persaud’s clothing, haversack and other items on the East Coast of Demerara. Some of the items were recovered.
At around 17.00 hrs on Friday, Persaud’s body, clad only in underwear, was found in the vicinity of Vriesland, West Bank of Demerara.
Similar Articles
THE BLUNT OF THE DAY
Sports
Features/Columnists
The eternal optimism of the human spirit
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- Every New Year’s Eve, like clockwork, we engage in a ritual that is predictable as... more
Breaking the Chains of Poverty: A need for political will
By Sir Ronald Sanders Kaieteur News- The year 2024 has underscored a grim reality: poverty continues to be an unyielding... more
Weekend Cartoon
